Year: 2013

The Switch writer, Caitlin Dewey, reviewed a recent study on Twitter in her article on “Where do Twitter trends start? Try Cincinnati” for the Washington Post. It summarizes a study done at Indiana University on where Twitter topics trend and spread. It found that Twitter trends that start in Cincinnati tend to spread out and […]

A few years ago, I ran across a fun website, called Be My Satellite, which promotes geoliteracy through collaborative satellite image-hacking. It is a type of large scale art installment that uses the spatial pixel grid as a creative tool, typically for Google satellite views. Another type of satellite art uses prints of images […]

This past week, Democrat Natalie Tennant announced her run for Senate and it was covered by the Washington Post, “Natalie Tennant Officially Launches Senate Campaign in West Virginia“. However, the big news wasn’t her political platform, but rather the fact that her campaign video uses stock footage of a college campus – not West Virginia […]

Honestly it’s like the space scientist equivalent of watching Lindsey Lohan. Has it left? When did it leave? Is it still here? Is it long gone? I can’t stop obsessing about this news. It appears Voyager 1 left the solar system quit some time ago (around April), IF plasma density is to be believed. The […]